Well.. 160 x 3 = 480. So he would've had to give only 2 bags. But he would've given a fraction of a bag, but if you're only talking whole numbers, then the answer is 2. If you're talking fractions, then the answer is 2.51875.
The area of a trapezoid is found by averaging the bases and multiplying the height. to average the bases, you take 22ft + 14ft to get 36ft and then divide it by 2 since there are 2 numbers to average to get 18ft. Then you just multiply that by 8ft to get your area of 144ft^2 (square feet).
We can set up a proportion since we know the ratio between the # of purple marbles and the # of green marbles.
A ratio is a way to compare two different values: for every 8 purple marbles there are 5 green marbles
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</h2><h2 /><h2>when we cross multiply, we get 5p = 240 </h2><h2>we divide both sides by 5 to isolate the variable </h2><h2 /><h3><u>There are 48 purple marbles </u></h3>
